{"nrhp_refnum":"00000750","name":"Lerner Building","other_names":["Petrie's Clothing Store","Cuy-2981-1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"322-324 Euclid Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50056789000007,"lon":-81.69188271899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story steel frame and masonry retail building at 322-324 Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1936 in the Art Deco style with a marble veneer façade, on the site of an earlier narrow bank tower.","why_significant":"It is nominated under Criterion C as a good and increasingly rare example of Art Deco architecture on a retail building in Cleveland. It was one of the first Art Deco buildings along Euclid Avenue and broke sharply with the Neo-Classical and Victorian styles around it. It received the 1936 Chamber of Commerce medal of merit as the best small commercial building.","narrative":"Rising three stories on Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, this narrow 30-foot-wide building was completed in 1936 and is faced in marble laid in a square grid. Its upper façade carries Art Deco relief work, including vertical flutes and a bas-relief of a stylized woman holding a book beneath a stepped parapet. The building was created by cutting down the 1905 Guardian Savings and Trust tower to its first-floor structure and reusing the basement and first floor. Cleveland Trust architect Alfred G. Hall designed it, a departure from his usual neo-classical work. The Lerner Shops of Ohio, a women's clothing company, were the first occupant, and Petrie's occupied it from 1951 until the mid-1990s. Built during the Depression, it won the Chamber of Commerce medal of merit as the best small commercial building of 1935-36. Its façade is largely unaltered, the first-floor interior keeps curvilinear plaster and neon accents, and the upper floors now hold apartments. It is listed for its architecture as a rare Cleveland Art Deco example.","period_of_significance":"1936-1949","architect_builder":"Alfred G. Hall - Architect; George A. Rutherford - Contractor","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Deco","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"First floor remains clothing retail space; the second and third floors have been rehabilitated into residential units.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.632709-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/00000750.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000750/61cadc5786-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000750/61cadc5786-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lerner_Bldg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lerner_Bldg.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000702","name":"Euclid Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/euclid-avenue-historic-district-02000702/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987353","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137642488"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/lerner-building-00000750/"}